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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 29/09/2026

Culture wars framing trivializes attacks on people's rights. If it were just, say, is rap better than country it would be unimportant to politics. But it's about abortion, same sex marriage, transgender rights, things politicians can usually affect more directly than the economy!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 04/09/2026

I was lucky to be sitting in the bleachers for this. Quite a gem against a stacked Cleveland team with HOF Jim Thome as well as Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton, Carlos Baerga, and Manny Ramirez as a rookie. Thanks Jim Abbott for a wonderful memory!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 04/09/2026

https:mydialect.us/quick-quiz.html This was impressive: I grew up in Maryland and says I talk like someone from there.

A U.S. map shaded blue to red based on how closely you match the dialect of different regions.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 01/09/2026

RotoValue Player of the Week Daylen Lile .458, 3 HR, 7 R, 10 RBI, 1 SB Honorable Mention Rafael Devers .429, 3 HR, 8 R, 8 RBI, 0 SB Pitcher of the Week Zebby Matthew's 15⅓ IP, 12 K, 1.17 ERA, 0.783 WHIP, 2 W www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #Fantasy

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Ella Fitzgerald Anonymous 4 Rush Yo-Yo Ma Chanticleer Metropolitan Opera Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Andrè Rieu Harlem Globetrotters Les Artes Florissants

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 24/08/2026

RotoValue players of the week Pete Crow-Armstrong .375, 5 HR, 6 R, 8 RBI, 2 SB Jordan Walker .353, 3 HR, 9 R, 8 RBI, 2 SB Pitcher of the week Cal Quantrill 13 IP, 11 K, 0.769 WHIP, 0.00 ERA, 2 W www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #Fantasy #MLB

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 24/08/2026

Make 3 bands bigger: The Rolling Boulders Arkansas Odyssey

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 17/08/2026

RotoValue players of the week: Alec Burleson .409, 2 HR, 7 R, 12 RBI, 0 SB Jac Caglianone .409, 2 HR, 5 R, 9 RBI, 2 SB Pitcher of the week: Reid Detmers 14 IP, 0.643 WHIP, 0.64 ERA, 1 W, 17 K www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #Fantasy

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 03/08/2026

RotoValue player of the week: Ceddane Rafaela .417, 5 HR, 7 R, 11 RBI, 2 SB Pitcher of the week: Gavin Williams 12⅔ IP, 22 K, 0.474 WHIP, 1.42 ERA, 1 W www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #Fantasy #Roto

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 21/07/2026

RotoValue player of the ½week Drake Baldwin .714, 3HR, 5 R, 8 RBI, 1 SB Pitchers of the ½week Nolan McLean 6 IP, 10K, 0.00 ERA, 0.667 WHIP, 1W Tariq Skubal 7 IP, 9K, 0.00 ERA, 0.714 WHIP, 1W www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #Fantasy

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 16/07/2026

Burton Kibble Harry Milk

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 07/07/2026

RotoValue Player of the Week: Dansby Swanson .409, 5 HR, 8 R, 11 RBI, 0 SB Pitcher of the Week Eury Pérez 12⅓ IP, 0.486 WHIP, 0.73 ERA, 16 K, 2 W #MLB #Fantasy www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 17/06/2026

Name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you The Kallikaks This ran on NBC for 5 episodes in 1977.

David Huddleston in a promotional photo for the short-lived TV series The Kallikaks

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 16/06/2026

RotoValue players of the week Jackson Chourio .448, 5 HR, 8 R, 10 RBI, 0 SB James Wood .440, 3 HR, 9 R, 6 RBI, 3 SB Pitcher of the week Logan Webb 16 IP, 14 K, 0.56 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 1 Win www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #Fantasy

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 11/06/2026

Michael Johnson anchoring the U.S. 4x400 relay to a world record at the 1998 Goodwill Games.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 08/06/2026

RotoValue Player of the Week Shohei Ohtani .480, 1 HR, 7 R, 4 RBI, 0 SB 6 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.50 WHIP, 6 K, 1 Win Honorable Mention Pete Crow-Armstrong .440, 4HR, 4 R, 6 RBI, 2 SB Jacob deGrom 11 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 14 K, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 07/06/2026

And before! In addition to being a dickish move, it's unfair to the athletes, who'll need to fly from Mexico to Seattle for a game, and then back in the same day. The other two games are in LA. FIFA should take those games away from the U.S.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 04/06/2026

Once again Shohei Ohtani is just 1 IP short of leading this list. He's pitched 61 innings, and the Dodgers have played 62 games. His 0.74 ERA is just over half of Sánchez's! www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Detail: Shohei Ohtani

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 02/06/2026

RotoValue player of the week Ronald Acuña Jr. .333, 5 HR, 5 R, 10 RBI, 5 SB Pitcher of the week Jacob Misiorowski 14 IP, 20 K, 0.429 WHIP, 0.64 ERA, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #FantasyBaseball

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 29/05/2026

Great that baseball-reference is continuing to improve its data quality!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 25/05/2026

RotoValue Player of the Week: Ketel Marte .536, 3HR, 11 R, 12 RBI Pitcher of the Week: Max Meyer 13 IP, 14 K, 0.00 ERA, 0.692 WHIP, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... Fantasy #MLB

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 12/05/2026

#MLB RotoValue Player of the Week Christopher Sánchez 15 IP, 17 K, 0.00 ERA, 0.667 WHIP 2 Wins Batter of the Week Andy Pages .417, 4 HR, 5 R, 8 RBI, 1 SB Honorable Mention Bobby Witt Jr. .407, 3 HR, 7 R, 4 RBI, 2 SB www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Culture Diamond

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band Dire Flushes

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 04/05/2026

#MLB 5x5 RotoValue player of the week Byron Buxton .345, 5 HR, 7 RBI, 6 R, 2 SB Honorable Mention Jordan Walker .393, 2 HR, 11 RBI, 6 R, 2 SB Pitcher of the week Jesús Luzardo 13⅓ IP, 1.35 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 18 K, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 28/04/2026

@thebhp.bsky.social I first heard of the podcast from @joshtpm.bsky.social, who did an interview with you and @coproducerzee.bsky.social a few years ago. Josh uses the Norman motte and bailey castle as a metaphor for the administration's ballroom/bunker: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

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Trump’s Motte-and-Bailey Presidency

It’s difficult to imagine anything more perverse, authoritarian, diseased or corrupt than...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 27/04/2026

#MLB RotoValue 5x5 Player of the week: Ildemaro Vargas .364, 4 HR, 7R 12 RBI $47.52 RotoValue Pitcher of the week: Landen Roup 12⅔ IP, 13K, 2 wins, 0.789 WHIP, 2.84 ERA $42.70 RotoValue www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 26/04/2026

@thebhp.bsky.social Do you think the investiture controversy between Paschal II and Henry I should have made the list of top 5 Pope fueds in the last segment of this post? talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende... What might be your top 5, or 10?

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 23/04/2026

#MLB NL Central still going strong - all five teams are at least 3 games over .500. The last time an entire division had been at least 3 games over was August 12, 2023, when all 5 AL East teams did it. Before that year, it had not been done since 2012!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 20/04/2026

@stathead.com Was wondering how unusual this is: all teams in a division at least 3 games over .500. Can stathead filter teams by division? Can it search based on a linear combination of two other stats (e.g. Wins - Losses >= 3)? I am trying to find some way to search if this happened before.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 20/04/2026

#MLB The NL Central is playing very well: all five teams are at least 3 games over .500! Imagine being 12-9 on the year and in last place. www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/ProS...

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2026 MLB Standings

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 12/04/2026

@kenwhite.bsky.social Looks like you're about to get some competition!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 26/03/2026

#MLB #OpeningDay One day in, and I'm deep in last place because of this: www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Auct... Small sample size, of course. And luckily¹ I didn't watch because I don't have Netflix. ¹ Also unluckily, as I was perfectly hedged, and the Yankees fan for 50 years was thrilled!

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2026 Ezra Stiles Rotisserie Association Auction

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 25/03/2026

#MLB opening day is a good time to polish the RotoValue crystal ball! blog.rotovalue.com/index.php/20... Play ball!

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2026 MLB Crystal Ball – RotoValue Blog

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 13/03/2026

without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work "Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do."

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 17/02/2026

@immaculategrid.com pecision question: Is a .300 average ≥ .300, or ≥ .2995? Reggie Jackson finished 1980 at 154-514, or .2996 as his only .300 season. Same Q for any ratio stat: does it use the displayed precision or the underlying real value?

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 04/02/2026

@thebhp.bsky.social This is half a millennium ahead of where the pod is now, but I loved @erikloomis.bsky.social's description of Charles II: "Charles was also unusual among kings in that evidently, he was not an incurious violent moron." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/erik...

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Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,075 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of King Charles II. Born in 1630 in London, the son of King Charles I must have thought that he would have an easy time ascending to the throne. He did not. See, the Puritan uprising...

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 27/01/2026

@talkingpointsmemo.com's membership model may not be easy to replicate, but it has worked well for it and its readers.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 12/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band: Stone Temple Copilots Boyz 2 Adolescents Prince and the Nonviolent Protest Pearl Jelly Probably

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 22/12/2025

When J.D. Vance sees a forecast like today's, does he sing "I'm dreaming of a white Kwanzaa?"

Image of a weather forecast showing a 90% chance of precipitation on December 26th, with temperatures below 0°C

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 22/12/2025

Horton sees a who? The cartoonist @billamend.bsky.social deserves credit! At least it gets even more attention this way.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 20/12/2025

At least Zillow Sleuth Ed Whelan took leave from leading the Ethics and Public Policy Institute for a few weeks after falsely accusing one of Brett Kavanaugh's HS classmates of attempting to rape Christine Blasey-Ford.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 13/12/2025

This is terrific! A Tom Lehrer song I hadn't heard before, too.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 07/12/2025

I suspect the core issue here is that the components of wOBA are more stable than runs allowed. So wOBA may well correlate as well or better with runs than runs itself!

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 01/12/2025

I named my fists Sense and Sensibility because I'm suffering from Jane's Addiction.

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Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 21/11/2025

This is wrong. Exit poll data showed more Perot voters had Clinton as their second choice than H.W. Bush. In this analysis, Clinton's popular vote margin would have risen from 5.5% to about 7%: split-ticket.org/2023/04/01/e...

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Examining Ross Perot’s Impact on the 1992 Presidential Election Results

Many political scientists now recognize that Ross Perot’s independent candidacy did not spoil the 1992 presidential election for Republican President George H.W. Bush, yet few comprehensive quantit…

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